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​“The Launch Team is a place for new missionaries to establish their first roots in a new culture. An opportunity to learn from others who are a few steps ahead in the adjustment process.”

Why should the landing strategy already in place influence our involvement with unreached Muslim peoples?

Watch The Task Unfinished (2:04)​​ Read the poem from the video and share which phase that impacted you the most.

Facing a task unfinished that drives us to our knees,A need that, undiminished, rebukes our slothful ease,We who rejoice to know You review before Your throneThe solemn pledge we owe You to go and make You knownWhere other lords besides You hold their unhindered sway,Where forces that defied You defy You still today.With none to hear their cry for love and light and life,Numbered souls are dying and pass into the night.We bear the torch that, flaming, comes from the hands of thoseWho gave their life proclaiming that Jesus died and rose.Ours is the same commission, the same glad message ours,Fired by the same ambition. To You we yield our powers:Our Father who sustains, our Spirit who inspires,Our Savior whose love constraints to toil with zeal and tire.​Can coward-ness defend us from lethargy? Awake!For on Your errand send us to labor for Your sake.

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“If you want to touch a Muslim’s heart for the gospel, you have to be a genuine friend. You need to ask God to give you honest concern for them, not see Muslims as trophy conversions, but as people whom God loves and whom you can love as well” (p. 85).

Why is genuine friendship so important when trying to share the gospel with unreached Muslims?

“People of peace are God’s pre-positioned agents to bridge the gospel to their family, their friends, or their workplace. This element of Jesus’ strategy for engaging lost-ness is perhaps one of the most significant principles, and also one of the most neglected principles, for entering unreached people groups” (p. 90).

Imagine your mission team is in a city inhabited by tens of thousands of unreached Muslims. How would you go about discovering people of peace; how would you find those disillusioned with Islam and curious about the Bible?

“Making disciples is very different from making converts. Disciple-making requires time and relationship. Disciple- making does not typically depend on formulas of salvation or on strangers leading strangers in a quick decision regarding personal destiny. Disciple-makers are prepared to invest weeks, months, and maybe years developing genuine friendships, facilitating someone’s discovery of and obedience to God’s story from creation to Christ, and eventually giving Jesus his life allegiance” (p. 180).

Does this differ from how many Christians view disciple-making? Explain.

Is it appropriate to say you’re in a disciple-making relationship with someone who is not yet a Christian? Explain.